Mike Batt to debut new musical ‘Men Who March Away’ in the East End
Mike Batt will conduct the world premiere of his new musical ‘Men Who March Away’ in a costumed dramatic concert in the East End with Docklands Sinfonia at St Anne’s, Limehouse, on Friday 17 March 2017. The epic love story, which crosses generations, is played out against the background of the beginning of the First […]
Original cast of Kinky Boots Broadway visit the London production
The original Kinky Boots Broadway Lola and Charlie, Billy Porter and Stark Sands, joined the London cast of the show, onstage at the Adelphi Theatre. The pair visited backstage after the show and met with the London Lola and Charlie, Matt Henry and David Hunter. Kinky Boots, now booking until May 2017, has become a […]
Jérôme Pradon to star in THE BRAILLE LEGACY at Charing Cross Theatre
“The Braille Legacy” tells the thrilling, true, inspirational and epic story of Louis Braille, a young blind boy who wanted the same chance in life as those who see and ended up improving the lives of millions of blind people around the world. It will run at Charing Cross Theatre from Monday 10 April to […]
THE SWARM buzzes in to the VAULT Festival
After a set of sold out shows at the Brunel Museum in Rotherhithe, The Quorum bring The Swarm to Vault Festival for a limited run of performances. When the queen bee is deposed by her daughter and forced to leave the hive, she takes half the honey bee colony with her and so they embark […]
STOMP breaks records at Ambassadors Theatre, London
STOMP in London finished 2016 on a high with two consecutive record-breaking performances on Wednesday 28 and Thursday 29 December, when they posted the highest ever net box office figures for STOMP at the Ambassadors Theatre, beating the previous record set on Saturday 14 February 2015. These two performances are also the highest netting performances […]
Laura Jane Matthewson to star in MY FAIR LADIES
For four nights only, My Fair Ladies is appearing at The Crazy Coqs and promises an evening filled to the brim with the best songs made famous by Broadway’s best divas. Reliving these iconic songs are three of London’s own best young divas: Lisa-Anne Wood (Les Misérables, Phantom of the Opera), Laura-Jane Matthewson (Dogfight, winner […]
Should more theatre shows be filmed and released?
Last week I wrote a blog about the illegal filming of theatre shows and whether or not we both love and hate them. Yes it’s illegal and we all hate seeing anyone around us with the bright light of their phone shining in our eyes but we are also the same people who love to […]
Watch Chris Peluso and Zoë Doano sing “More And More” from DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY
Maxwell Caulfield, Zoë Doano and Chris Peluso are to head the cast of Death Takes A Holiday, the third Charing Cross Theatre musical directed by Artistic Director Thom Southerland following the critically acclaimed Titanic and Ragtime, which has just received an all-time record 14 Off West End Award nominations as well as WhatsOnStage Award nominations […]
2016 – Thank You!
With the new year just around the corner, today I am reflecting on the year gone by for me at westendwilma.com and all the things I am grateful for. In the run up to Christmas, I ran an online charity auction, raising money for the National Autistic Society to help stage more Relaxed Theatre Performances, […]
Eden Espinosa and Jodie Jacobs front “jam-packed” new season at Greenwich Theatre
Any thoughts about Greenwich Theatre taking a break after the extended run of its record-breaking pantomime were dismissed by artistic and executive director James Haddrell as he launched a jam-packed new season at the theatre. “A few years ago we might have considered a break after the panto but the theatre operates in a very […]